ANTI-CHINESE AGITATION. MEETING IN DUNEDIN.

Grey River Argus, 26 July 1907, Page 3

ANTI-CHINESE AGITATION. MEETING IN DUNEDIN.

DUNEDIN, July 25. .The Garrison Hall was filled last night with an enthusiastic anti-Chin-ese audience, when Mr W. A. Lloyd, Tan agent of the Anti-Chinese League, gave an' address on the matter. A telegram was read from the Premier as follows : — "My sympathies are entirely in the cause you support. My views on the question are, I presume, well known, for. both in Parliament and out I have consistently advocated the exclusion from- the colony of people " whose admission might make for the deterioration of our race. Unfortunately the imposition of a polltax has not been successful in preventing an., influx of ...Chinese. It is very necessary, in the best interests of the colony, that further restrictions should be imposed., and it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation to remedy the existing ?:atc of things. A high educational test is proposed, and this , together with the poll tax, it is hoped, will in a great measure act as a deterrent to .•the increase in . the number of Chinese coming to our country in the future." A motion was unanimously carried ( endorsing the introduction of legislation restricting the entry of Chinese, to the colony. An amendemnt proposed by Mr Kirk and seconded by Rev. A. Don, Chinese missionaries, affirming the principle that in the commercial interests of New: Zealand the Chinese immigration should be allowed to continue, was negatived most emphatically. . - A further motion, was carried unanimously; stating that intermarriage between Europeans and Asiatics i should be prohibted by law, and it was also : that the present unfair advantage enjoyed by Chinese in trade competition with Europeans should be terminated by making factory legislation apply equally to Chinese and Europeans.